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Carroll County High School senior Sabrina Young will be the first in her family to attend college when she arrives on campus at Western Kentucky University. But that achievement is overshadowed by the path she had to follow to even get to high school graduation.

Imagine that you have played your entire varsity-level high school softball career with the same core group of girls. Over the past six years, you have grown together as a team and a softball family, celebrating the highs and dealing with the lows together.

Then, the next year, everyone is gone. They have graduated, and you are the lone senior left on a team of inexperienced underclassmen and middle schoolers, attempting to compete on the varsity level.
How do you respond?

Jefferson Community and Technical College awarded retired Carroll County Judge-Executive Harold “Shorty” Tomlinson with an honorary associates degree in humane letters during the 2014-15 commencement ceremony May 12.

During the special presentation section of the ceremony, JCTC President Dr. Anthony Newberry said each year at graduation, time is set aside to honor individuals who have made a lasting impact on the community and who have demonstrated remarkable success.

Carroll County Rescue Squad representative Mark Ellis presented Carroll County Fiscal Court with a petition with 101 signatures requesting fiscal court give the extrication part of rescue back to the Carroll County Rescue Squad. Ellis said the extrication services would include the county’s two trucks and equipment.

Magistrate Mark Bates said what would also come with some of the rescue squad members is their unwillingness to get along with Emergency Management Director Ed Webb.

The Carroll County Board of Education passed a tentative $24.7 million budget for the 2015-16 school year that includes a two percent salary increase, two school buses, furniture for the middle school, Carroll County’s share for the iLead Academy and a bus maintenance vehicle.

The tentative budget, passed May 21 at its regular meeting, totals $24,720,255. There is a contingency of $2,781,237, which is 7.8 percent of the budget. The state requirement is 2 percent.

Carroll County Fiscal Court unanimously approved Sheriff Jamie Kinman’s request for a part-time deputy at the May 15 meeting.

“I have a retired city police officer that is interested in working part-time,” Kinman said. “His retirement limits him to 99 hours per month and the county would not have to pay any insurance or retirement benefits.”

Kinman stated that the hire would serve papers and transport prisoners but would not be doing any casework. He would also be a presence at night and on the weekends.